From “Sex Work” Advocate to Survivor Leader: A Journey Embraced
05/25/2017 02:56 pm ET Updated May 30, 2017 Nomonde Mihlali (“Mickey”) Meji is a program associate for Survivor Initiatives at Embrace Dignity in Cape Town,…
Prostitution and Sex Work: Situating Ireland’s New Law on Prostitution in the Radical and Liberal Feminist Paradigms
Abstract Several distinct ideologies have emerged from feminist theory. However, insofar as feminist ideologies differ, they agree in their recognition that women are essentially oppressed.It…
The Prostitution and Trafficking of American Indian/Alaska Native Women in Minnesota
Abstract We examined social and physical violence experienced by American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women in prostitution and their impacts on the mental and physical health…
Very inconvenient truths: sex buyers, sexual coercion, and prostitution-harm-denial
Some pimps, some sex buyers and some governments have made the decision that it is reasonable to expect certain women to tolerate sexual exploitation and…
Quelques vérités très gênantes : acheteurs de sexe, contraintes sexuelles et déni des dommages liés à la prostitution
This is a French translation of Very inconvenient truths: sex buyers, sexual coercion, and prostitution-harm-denial originally published in Logos.
Prostitution: An Extreme Form of Girls’ Sexualization
Zurbriggen, E. L., & Roberts, T.-A. (Eds.). (2013). The sexualization of girls and girlhood: Causes, consequences, and resistance. Oxford University Press. Abstract For the past…
Prostitution: Exploitation, Persecution, Repression
This 4th Global Report on sexual exploitation reflects the Fondation Scelles’ persistent objectives: for 20 years the foundation has conducted an in-depth and objective study…
Slavery and Prostitution: a Twenty-First Century Abolitionist Perspective
In Linking the Histories of Slavery in North America and Its Borderlands, by Bonnie Martin and James F. Brooks (eds.) Santa Fe: School for Advanced…
Amnesty International and Emily Bazelon whitewash prostitution, leaving Indigenous women and girls to deal with the consequences
The full decriminalization of prostitution has received considerable mainstream media attention of late: On May 5, the New York Times published an article by Emily…
The Evidence About Prostitution That The New York Times Ignored
Women in prostitution wait for customers in Sonagachi, the notorious red-light district of Kolkata, India. (Bikas Das / AP Photo) On May 5, Emily Bazelon,…
The Faux Neutrality of Decriminalisation
Support for decriminalized prostitution is ideological, not empirical
Sex Trafficking and the State: Applying Domestic Abuse Interventions to Serve Victims of Sex Trafficking
Abstract Advocacy and scholarship addressing sex trafficking as a human rights issue has become a transnational effort, but there has been less attention to sub-national…
Housing in exchange for sex acts is Prostitution
“I think these ads are appearing on Craigslist as a way for men to use their power, their access to housing, as a way to exploit women’s economic desperation,” Grey said. “We’re in a housing crisis, women are in poverty.”
France’s ‘Non’ to the Notion of ‘Sex Work’ Is a Blow Against the Exploitation of Women
Prostitution in France is now legally recognized as violence against women rather than as “sex work.” By an overwhelming majority (64-12), the country’s National Assembly…
We need to punish punters not prostitutes
Men don’t ‘need’ hookers, they want them. Let’s follow the enlightened Nordic countries and curb this vile sex trade.
No Amnesty for Women
In August 2015, Amnesty International voted to support pimps and sex buyers rather than people in prostitution – 90% of whom are not “voluntary sex…